{"id":16265,"date":"2016-10-18T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=16265"},"modified":"2016-10-03T20:16:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T01:16:44","slug":"wotr-review-releaseday-historical-a-ravens-heart-kc-bateman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=16265","title":{"rendered":"#WOTR #Review #ReleaseDay #Historical – A Raven’s Heart KC Bateman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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August 1815. The war with France is officially over, Napoleon\u2019s an exile on St Helena, but Europe is still a very dangerous place to be.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kidnapped and held for ransom at nineteen, ducal heir William Ravenwood knows the only person he can rely on is himself. Now part of a spy ring that includes his friends Nicolas and Richard Hampden, he\u2019s the smuggler known as The Raven, a ruthless agent who specializes in rescuing hostages and prisoners of war from captivity.<\/p>\n

Raven longs to discover the fate of his colleague, Christopher \u2018Kit\u2019 Carlisle, who\u2019s been missing, presumed dead, for over two years. He\u2019s also equally determined to stay away from the one thing he knows is dangerous to his health \u2013 the bane of his life, his best friends\u2019 infuriating and provocative little sister, Heloise.<\/p>\n

Heloise is a brilliant code breaker, one of the English government\u2019s most valuable assets. She\u2019s also loved Raven for years, but considering that he rejected her at sixteen, before her face was scarred rescuing her brother from an icy river, she\u2019s certain he doesn\u2019t want her now, despite his outrageous flirting.<\/p>\n

But when Heloise decodes a message that proves Kit is alive and a prisoner in Spain, Raven realizes she\u2019s in grave danger. With French agents determined to silence her, he\u2019ll do whatever it takes to keep her safe \u2013 even if that means taking her to Spain with him as an unwilling hostage.<\/p>\n

As they face French deserters and Spanish freedom fighters, Raven and Heloise try to ignore the simmering attraction that\u2019s been building between them for eight long years. The differences between them are striking but they\u2019ve always had a strange underlying bond. Heloise might be scarred outwardly, but Raven\u2019s wounds are all on the inside. He knows he\u2019s not worthy of her love\u2014a shadowed Hades pining for sun-kissed Persephone\u2014but he\u2019s not above showing her passion for the short time they\u2019re together.<\/p>\n

A master at decoding complex messages, Heloise finds Raven frustratingly hard to read, but as their lives hang in the balance she\u2019s determined to unravel his secrets and unlock his dark, elusive heart\u2026<\/p>\n

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Amazon: http:\/\/goo.gl\/i3Rhyq<\/a><\/p>\n

B&N: http:\/\/goo.gl\/1YzFWU<\/a><\/p>\n

Kobo: http:\/\/goo.gl\/x1fQqL<\/a><\/p>\n

iTunes: http:\/\/goo.gl\/4b7x53<\/a><\/p>\n

Google Play: http:\/\/goo.gl\/3bxOIz<\/a><\/p>\n

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I received this book from Netgalley for an honest review.<\/p>\n

SO I love a good Historical but this was a bit different then I had ever read.\u00a0 Most historical books are the wallflowers falling in love with the Rakeshell of a man.\u00a0 This book was so much more than those.\u00a0 This is about spies..OH what fun!!<\/p>\n

Now this is the 2nd<\/sup> book in a series and I did not read it but to be honest I never felt like I missed anything or felt left outta the loop on any of the drama of the plot or characters.<\/p>\n

So this book is about Heloise and Ravenwood. They are both working for the same goals annnd totally hot for each other.\u00a0 However, due to the fact she is Ravenwood\u2019s besties sister there is the whole hands off rule\u2026.Now we learn through the book that at one point there were hearts laid out but rejection occurred.\u00a0 Now a lot has happened to Heloise that makes her hide her feeling for Ravenwood and he too has had a lot happen for him .\u00a0 Now that he has to help protect her he can\u2019t seem to hid his heart from the woman who stole his heart years ago\u2026.wiggle eye brows!!<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed the book but at ties got a little over the whole \u201cits not you its me\u201d kinda drama but I would totally read another book by this author in the future.<\/p>\n

\"about<\/a><\/p>\n

Kate Bateman (writing as K. C. Bateman) wrote her first historical romance in response to a $1 bet with her husband who rashly claimed she’d ‘never finish the thing.’ She gleefully proved him wrong with an historical set in the Italian Renaissance. Now writing for Random House Loveswept, her latest ‘Secrets and Spies’ Regency-era trilogy features her trademark feisty, intelligent heroines, wickedly inappropriate banter, and heroes you want to alternately strangle and kiss\u2014all mixed up in the intrigue and turmoil of the Napoleonic wars.<\/p>\n

When not traveling to exotic locations ‘for research,’ Kate leads a double life as a fine art appraiser and on-screen antiques expert for several TV shows in the UK, each of which has up to 2.5 million viewers. She splits her time between Illinois and her native England and writes despite three inexhaustible children and a husband who has flatly refused to read any of her books ‘unless she hits the NY Times Bestseller list.’ It is – naturally – her fervent desire to force the semi-illiterate, number-loving cynic to do so. He still owes her that dollar.<\/p>\n

Kate loves to hear from readers and writers alike. Contact her on Twitter @katebateman, Facebook, and even via her website at www.kcbateman.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Website: http:\/\/kcbateman.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Twitter: http:\/\/twitter.com\/katebateman<\/a><\/p>\n

Pinterest: http:\/\/goo.gl\/2AHVgZ<\/a><\/p>\n

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August 1815. The war with France is officially over, Napoleon\u2019s an exile on St Helena, but Europe is still a very dangerous place to be. Kidnapped and held for ransom at nineteen, ducal heir William Ravenwood knows the only person he can rely on is himself. Now part of a spy ring that includes his … Continue reading #WOTR #Review #ReleaseDay #Historical – A Raven’s Heart KC Bateman<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-4el","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16351,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16265\/revisions\/16351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}